Dr Bevan Jones awarded a Fellow of the University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

On October 27, 2026, Dr Bevan Jones, an Adjunct Professor a tUTS’ Global Big Data Technologies Centre (GBDTC) was awarded a prestigious honour, a Fellow of the the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

The Honorary Award of Fellow of the University is given to outstanding leaders in business, industry, government, or the arts and who have made a significant contribution to the UTS’ strategic priorities. As co-founder and innovation lead of Argus Technologies, a globally influential base station antenna vendor, Dr Jones designed ultra-wideband cellular antennas that earned great industry acclaim for Argus. 

In 2015, Dr Jones joined GBDTC as an Adjunct Professor. With a strong background in antenna design, radar technology, and telecommunications systems, he brought valuable expertise from industry into the academic sphere. His involvement with GBDTC has helped strengthen the Centre’s unique blend of theoretical and applied research. 

Supporting GBDTC to Grow Future Antenna Research Leaders

Under the leadership of GBDTC Director, Distinguished Professor Jay Guo, the Centre has become one of Australia's leading research institutions in wireless communications and antenna technologies. Through collaborative supervision and mentorship, Dr Jones has supported a number of high-performing PhD students and postdoctoral. The industry challenges he brought to GBDTC, and his engineering insights have significantly benefited the early career researchers he co-supervised. His ability to bridge complex theoretical research with real-world applications has enriched student learning experiences and supported the development of viable industry solutions.

Mentoring the next generation

With co-supervision and mentorship from Dr Jones, several GBDTC postdoctoral graduates have accelerated their careers in industry and academia. These include:

Dr Haihan Sun completed significant research on the suppression of cross-band antenna scattering in base station antennas, a well-known industrial challenge, resulting in high-impact publications and best paper awards.   These papers pioneered the research subfield of de-scattering techniques for base station antennas. Dr Sun’s achievements at GBDTC contributed to her appointment as an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023

Dr Stanley Chen, a lecturer at GBDTC, worked closely with Dr Jones to explore novel approaches to reconfigurable and leaky-wave antennas as a PhD student. Dr Chen’s contributions have received widespread recognition, resulting in multiple awards and high impact publications in leading journals. He received a 2025 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA).

Dr Maral Ansari’s research on metamaterial lens antennas under the co-supervision of Dr Jones, led to several well-regarded publications and competitive grants. Thanks to her publications, she was named a Rising Star by the Australian Research Magazine in 2024. Her research at GBDTC played a key role in securing a position as a Research Engineer at CSIRO through the “Impossible Without You” program.